G8 Leaders Dine in Oppulence While Expressing Concern Over World Food Crisis
Corn-stuffed caviar ... And it would be deeply wrong in any assessment to forget the selection of wines on offer ... Wine list Le Reve grand cru champagne Labels: food security, G8
The Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations met in Japan this week where the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries released a Statement on Global Food Security output; outlined plan to form a global food and . In it they: expressed deep concern for rising food prices; reiterated earlier commitments to food aid, nutrition intervention and efforts to increase agriculturalagriculture partnership; and expressed commitment to reforming the FAO to ensure greater effectiveness. With other promises related to climate change and development for Africa, critics call G8 commitments vague and suggest they fail to address root problems.
Meanwhile, G8 leaders dined in opulence on the following menu prompting Tim Hayward to wonder what is more depressing: "the leader's hypocrisy or the incompetent PR."
On the menu for G8 leaders social dinner:
Smoked salmon and sea urching "pain surprise" style
Winter lily bulb and summer savoury
Kelp-flavoured cold kyoto beef shabu-shabu, asparagus dressed with sesame cream
Diced fatty fles of tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce and Japanese herb "shiso"
Boiled clam, tomato, Japanese herb "shiso" in jellied clear soup of clam
Water shield and pickled conger dressed with vinegar soy sauce
Boiled prawn with jellied tosazu-vinegar
Grilled eel rolled around burdock strip
Sweet potato
Fried and seasoned Goby with soy sauce and sugar
Hairy Crab "Kegani" bisque soup
Salt-grilled bighand thornyhead with vinegary water pepper sauce
Milk fed lamb from "shiranuka" flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard
Roasted lamb and cepes and black truffle with emulsion sauce of lamb's stock and pine seed oil
Special cheese selection, lavender honey and caramelised nuts
G8 fantasy dessert
Japanese saki
Corton Charlemagne 2005
Chateau Latour burgundy
Ridge California Monte Bello 1997
Tokaji Essencia 1999 from Hungary
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